German social networking websites

hospitality service

XING is a Hamburg-based career-oriented recruiting, job-search and social networking site, operated by New Work SE (until mid-2019 XING SE) and owned mainly by Hubert Burda Media.

German social network

StudiVZ, SchülerVZ and MeinVZ was a social networking platform for students (in particular for college and university students in Europe) that was based in Berlin, Germany. The name is an abbreviation of the German expression Studentenverzeichnis, which means ''students' directory''.

website for social-bookmarking

dol2day is a social networking platform for politically interested German speaking people. dol2day is the abbreviation for “democracy online today”. Most of the members are college and university students, pupils and younger professionals, in particular from Germany. Average age is between 20 and 30 years. Five students from Aachen launched the website in May 2000. Therefore, dol2day claims to be one of the oldest social networks and the biggest for politics in Germany. The site is a combination of Internet forum and multi-user dungeon (MUD).

foodsharing.de is an online platform that saves and distributes surplus food in Germany and Austria. It is managed by the Foodsharing association (foodsharing e.V.) and was founded on December 12, 2012. On foodsharing.de individuals, retailers and producers can offer or collect food that would otherwise be thrown away. This service is completely free, and functions thanks to volunteer work. The project's goal is to fight everyday food waste and to raise awareness about this problem in society.

Qype was a Hamburg-based web 2.0 company centred on social networking and local reviews. They operated websites in Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Switzerland, Austria, Ireland, Poland, Spain, Italy and Brazil, and had approximately 22 million monthly unique European visitors.

SpaceHey is an English-language online social network operated by the German company tibush GmbH and headquartered in Pfullingen. Founded in 2020 by Anton Röhm, the project serves as a homage to social media platform MySpace during its peak in the mid-2000s. However, it is not officially affiliated with MySpace.

Yasni is a German people search engine, operated by yasni GmbH. It aggregates search results from external sources and is therefore a meta search engine.